Hooray, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank regulatory reform bill into law last week! Now we can all start speculating about how ineffective, irrelevant and incomplete it is! Right? Um … right? Here’s the unvarnished truth, folks: Nobody talking about the Dodd-Frank Act today has any idea whether it will really achieve its intended aim of creating […]
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Editorial: Reflections on Compliance Week 2010
Well, the Compliance Week 2010 conference is now done. The event was excellent, and credit belongs to all the attendees, speakers, and helpers who altogether made our 2010 conference the largest and most successful we’ve ever had. We have extensive coverage of the event in this month’s magazine, but let me also share a few […]
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Supreme Court’s PCAOB Decision: Much Ado About Little
Sometimes landmark court cases turn out to be little more than bumps in the road. Today’s Supreme Court ruling against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is one of those times. We will, of course, hear all manner of headlines and hyperbole about the case, Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB, and how it is a […]
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Why You Should Care About Derivatives Reform
Like most human beings, I somewhat wish derivatives had never been invented—not because they aren’t useful (they are), but because discussion of how to regulate the derivatives trade makes my head hurt. I’m sure I am not alone on this. Nevertheless, how derivatives are created, traded, and disclosed to the public is indeed an important […]
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Disclosure Update From the SEC
All you executives in charge of corporate disclosure or investor relations, take heart: The Securities and Exchange Commission feels your pain. So says Meredith Cross, head of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, who spoke this morning at the National Investor Relations Institute annual conference in San Diego. I’m at the NIRI conference as well […]
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Editorial: A Compliance Summer Reading List
Nothing says “summer” like the media publishing a summer reading list, and nothing says “compliance” like a complex topic most other people would consider esoteric. So let’s bring both of those ideas together in my annual summer reading list for corporate compliance and governance executives. Start with some fiery invective to rouse your indignation just […]
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Parting Thoughts on Compliance Week 2010
Well, the Compliance Week 2010 conference is now done and fading into history. The event was excellent, and credit belongs to all the attendees, speakers and helpers who altogether made our 2010 conference the largest and most successful we’ve ever had. Anyone who didn’t make it to Washington this year can see what you missed […]
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Pre-Gaming the Compliance Week 2010 Conference
Well, it’s that time of year again: The Compliance Week annual conference. This is our fifth year holding an annual conference, and somewhat to my amazement, we genuinely do have the best lineup in our brief history. We will have more attendees, listening to more speakers, in more sessions, than ever before. Compliance Week will […]
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Compliance Book of the Month: Cyber War
You can’t help but wonder how much Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security, was written to enhance the reputation and revenue stream of its primary author, Richard Clarke. After all, he was the anti-terrorism official from the Clinton and Bush Administrations who publicly apologized in 2004 for failing to stop the Sept. 11 […]
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Supply Chain Risks in the Personnel Department
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a rather intriguing report yesterday that should give compliance and financial reporting executives pause: the labor market is getting tighter. More people quit their jobs in March (1.87 million) than were laid off (1.83 million). It was the second consecutive month we’ve seen the “quit rate” exceed the pace […]
